Dashes Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter… — B. C. Forbes
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. — Jules Renard
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside. — George Bernard Shaw
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it… — Philip Larkin
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the… — Tom Wolfe
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful… — John Wesley Powell

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